Studio of Jan Breughel the Younger and Studio of Hendrick van Balen

Acquired in Madrid in 1830 by Sir William Eden, 6th Bt of West Auckland and 4th Bt of Maryland (1803-1873), Windlestone Hall, County Durham (according to a label on the reverse);
Thence by descent to John Eden, 9th Bt of West Auckland and 7th Bt of Maryland, Baron Eden of Winton (1925-2020).

Recorded in a nineteenth-century ms plan of the hang at Windlestone Hall, Catalogue of Pictures Windlestone, displayed on the south side of the West Halll (as ‘Repose in Egypt/ Breughel/ b. 1565/ d. 1642/ Albano b. 1578/ d. 1666/ Bologna’);
Pictures, ms list, 19^th century (in Sir William Eden’s hand?), no. 34: ‘Breughel 1562–1625/ Repose in Egypt(?) Figures by another hand.’;
Pictures at Windlestone, ms list, 1909, as hanging in East Hall, no. 27: ‘as Brueghel, Jan/ Holy family and cherubs)’; annotated: ‘Figures by another hand?’;
Catalogue of the Pictures at Windlestone, ms. list, n.d., no. 27: ‘Jan Breughel (1562–1625)/ Holy Family and cherubs./ (?figures by another hand. Rottenhammer frequently painted figures in Breughel’s landscapes)’;
Manuscript notebook, early 20^th century and before 1922 (date when the Fabritius was purchased by the NACF), as hanging in the West Hall, no. 3 (crossed out and renumbered, ‘East Hall, no. 7’): ‘Holy Family (Repose in Egypt?) by Jan Breughel (1562–1625) / Figure by another hand.’.